WHAT BELONGS TO YOU
– Garth Greenwell
This debut novel has enjoyed stellar reviews and praise from highly influential and respected critics in the likes of The New Yorker and The New York Times. An unnamed narrator, teaching at a prestigious school in Sofia, Bulgaria, is captivated by a young male hustler named Mitko who he meets in a public toilet. He pays him for sex and so begins a fraught, doomed relationship which faces impossible obstacles: economic inequality, language barriers, and even sexuality (Mitko is really only ‘gay for pay’).